{"id":25721,"date":"2018-12-17T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=25721"},"modified":"2018-12-17T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:05:10","slug":"preseason-trout-stocking-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/12\/17\/preseason-trout-stocking-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Preseason Trout Stocking Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Winter Fishing Tradition in Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1655\/25649302385_93597400b9.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of trout at state hatchery\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> is offering anglers an early start to the spring trout season before winter even begins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Starting the week of Dec. 17, 2018, the department will conduct preseason\u00a0trout stocking at several popular fishing locations. Early trout stocking will include several impoundments that will receive their annual allotments in a single stocking.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFishing in Maryland is a year-round activity,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fishing and Boating Services<\/a> Director David Blazer said. \u201cSome of our most die-hard anglers come out in the winter. This is a unique opportunity to have those efforts rewarded, and it&#8217;s also an ideal time for new anglers to <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/service_fishing_license.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get their license<\/a> and learn the sport and tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s hatcheries are raising more than a quarter million brown, golden and rainbow trout, which will be stocked in more than 130 locations across 14 counties during the 2019 spring season.<\/p>\n<p>The stocking schedule and daily updates are available <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/trout\/stocking.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>\u00a0as well as the department\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/service_centers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regional service centers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/service_agents.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">license agents<\/a>. Anglers can also receive stocking notifications\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/MDDNR\/subscriber\/new?topic_id=MDDNR_44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by email<\/a> or calling 800-688-3467.<\/p>\n<p>The trout stocking program is funded by the sale of nontidal fishing licenses, trout stamps and federal Sport Fish Restoration Program funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter Fishing Tradition in Maryland The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering anglers an early start to the spring trout season before winter even begins.\u00a0 Starting the week of Dec. 17, 2018, the department will conduct preseason\u00a0trout stocking at several popular fishing locations. Early trout stocking will include several impoundments that will receive their<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/12\/17\/preseason-trout-stocking-begins\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[2997,4913,3114,4375],"class_list":["post-25721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-david-blazer","tag-sport-fish-restoration-program","tag-trout","tag-trout-stocking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25721"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25746,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25721\/revisions\/25746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}